the biggest thing in the world is disappearing. ah, architect of emotions. architecture is coming. a mystery. believe me. starts december 25th on d w. ah . this is the w news line from berlin, china signals and relaxation. a bit strict cove is 19 measures several major cities east testing requirements and restrictions on movement. officials try to diffuse public anger, feeling widespread protests, also on the program. ukrainians are told to head to air raid shelters as officials

war. russia is gearing up for a massive aerial attack. satellite images from a russian airfield suggest preparations for an assault rushes foreign minister accuse if the west of rejecting dialogue with moscow. i left off criticizes the organization for security and cooperation in europe. the says nato is directly participating in the war in new credit. i don't world aids day. we look at how south africa is using preventative measures and new drugs to tackle the disease which still claims hundreds of thousands of lives every year. ah, i'm fil gail. welcome to the program. china's top cove 19 response official has signal to shift in the strict policies that provoked to protest on a scale not for decades,

vice premier sunshine land told health officials that the country's corona virus approaches entering a new stage. big city is like one joe, and john king are already easing restrictions following some of the most wide scale protest. china has seen for years straight and boiling over in wine, joe, and scuffled with covey workers in shanghai. rare public displays of anger with china's strict cobra policies. in recent days, in many cities, they moved into something even bigger. with protests as calling for the communist party. and gigi and ping to go there day. seems that reminded many of the piano men protest the 1st feeling that came to my man when no reason is very incredible,

port test across china was the spirit of the night. 89 has come. a key and staging responded by unleashing a fierce crack down. deploying huge numbers of police to stamp out the demonstrations, but it is also signal changes to the strict cobra policies that have angered so many the elite ok. on wednesday vice premier soon john learn told health officials china was entering a new stage in its pandemic approach. due to increased vaccination rates and experience with the corona virus. bunker in gwen jo authorities have already announced an end to mass p. c. r testing and lifted locked downs across the city. all part of a drive to implement cobra rules with more local flexibility. according to

officials. beijing said is also planning to step up. vaccinations of the elderly, lagging vaccination rates among the old have been used to justify the current 0 covey policy. with protest seemingly stamped out for now and a shift away from the approach that provoked them in the work paging may well, the hoping the biggest challenge to its authority in decades is already behind it. let's take a look at this re sophie richardson who's china director for human rights watch in new york, or welcome to d. w. was interesting that when this announcement was made, there was no direct connection made between the protests and this new phase. what do you think this relaxation following these protest actually tells us about what's going on? i think it reflects some level of official awareness of popular unhappiness

about the cubic restrictions. what do you think it remains to be seen? whether the 3 lactation is actually will happen, whether people believe that they are happening and whether it be authority to change their mind. reimpose, the stricter constraints, if in the case number, the surgeon during these protests, what we have seen is people identified via facial recognition systems, a people being arrested for their protests. do we know what happens to the many demonstrators who are then identified and detained? it's early days and so the, the information that we have is really anecdotal, that people, some people have been detained and are likely to be charged. and some of the authorities favorite charges like picking corals and stirring up troubles.

but i think there's a lot that we don't yet know about whether be authorities will impose longer time constraints on people. we know we do know for example, that become human rights. defenders who have been critical of the authorities response both to commit to these protests have been confined to their homes and prevented from communicating for example, with journalists with their own colleagues domestically. but, you know, in other circumstances, we've seen the authorities use more heavy handed tactics like the use of tear gas. for example, the censorship machinery is certainly working hard both. i think, to prevent discussions about development, to keep people from organizing. but i think it will be in the, in the coming days and weeks when we're able to discern whether there is a pattern with respect, particularly to detention and charges. protests to one side. do have a problem with the way that china has handled it with the chinese approach to

this pandemic. because where i was, we were hearing from a chinese spectacle a little earlier who, who just compared the number of deaths in a massive country like china, with those in europe and the united states and justified it on the basis that we have. fewer people have died as a result of these measures, right, i think from human rights perspective, particularly it has more effective health strategies have become available, for example, vaccines to continue pursuing such draconian measures a way of limiting infections. you know, and let's be clear. these are policies that have people lacking access to food. have people locked down and unable to access medical care for other conditions. have people locked in buildings that are on fire and can't leave this. and these are, these have been very strictly and public policies that have caused other human rights

violations. and so the concern is not just about dealing with coven, but doing so in a way that creates other violations, especially at a time when there are other strategies available. to the authority which. okay, thank you for joining us. sophie richardson from human rights watch. satellite images suggest russia may be gearing up for a massive aerial assault on the ukraine. now these pictures show almost 2 dozen long range bombers and cruise missiles being prepared for combat the angles to feel sad at all or blast in russia, cranium, military officials, to local media. the bummers will be used to increase strikes on ground targets in ukraine, especially energy infrastructure. so as joined correspondent young philip showed sat in keith. welcome, a young philip. so it does seem that russia is preparing for new ground

a tax is ukraine prepared? well the image is certainly come as no surprise to ukrainians on sunday. already information emerged that new messer for waves of attack might be imminent, actually are right alerts. so we're active here in key f and all over the country this afternoon. bad. so to my knowledge, are some airplanes where spotted bad, sir? no, no strikes were registered in the past week. so the ukranian air defense has been quite successful. it was able to intercept more than 2 thirds of all incoming missiles. but of course, their destructive power is still enormous. and we have to keep in mind that ukraine is still suffering from the effects of their pastor and waves of attacks. they're still millions of people without power. still the government asked people not to panic and not to live in this a constant anticipation of

a new massive attacks because this is also part of the psychological warfare. right . and so how well equipped to our ukranian forces at the, at the moment to withstand such an assault. looking at the massive strikes up the past weeks, of course, the ukraine is in need of more air defense systems. so they have repeatedly set this also at a nato meetings in the past days and weeks. it is very important for them to have to receive for new air defense. it's part of for the russian strategy to exhaust the ukrainian air defense systems. but on the other hand, frontline battles are also continuing, so they have also been repeated repeated calls for more tanks for more offensive weapon systems. but at the moment, i think the biggest challenge for the ukrainians is to be prepared for those

massive weights of missile. i take sent it to get more air defense and we see snow on the roost behind you. winter is obviously here. how are you crenan? sec, coping with that with winter conditions. when though with less, less heat and power, they are still millions of people with all its power and snow power. also in very many cases means no heating because in a lot of apartment buildings, the electricity is needed for the heating system to pump or hot water up. and also a lot of people rely on additional electric heaters. the government has set up a so called emergency sent us all over the country where 24 hour power is available . and so where people can also get a warm drink and, and to, to, to, to feel more comfortable. but it's, it's obvious that keeping the people warm is the biggest challenge here in the

country at the moment. and he, and for the thank you for that. yon phillips shelton keith. meanwhile, a russian foreign minister, sir guy laughed ralph a severely criticized the organization for security and cooperation in europe as it opens its annual meeting in poland. without him in attendance. he qsi o s e r being anti russian. after the host country, poland banned him from the conference. and despite russia being a member state meeting opened in judge, with strong denunciations of russia's war against that ukraine of war has been one of the biggest challenges to the group since it was founded nearly 50 years ago. when i corresponded to terry shaw says, or se talks are in poland. welcome at terry. how is a russia being discussed in though given mr. love's absence?

well, russia and it's war on ukraine are definitely the. the biggest topic here. in fact, the polish chairman said that it had overshadowed everything else for the organization this year. anything else it wanted to accomplish. and as you mentioned, foreign minister leverage made sure everyone noticed his absence by holding a press conference at exactly the same time as the meeting was opening this morning . it trashing the o. s. c, e, criticizing the polish leadership and saying the organization is basically enslaved to the united states. so certainly, russia was on the agenda here already, and lever off made sure that everyone remembered exactly how brutally russia is handling it's international relations at the moment. so, yes, country after country denounced rushes aggression against ukraine and expressed again their support for that country. and the u. s. foreign policy chief, joseph brown, has said that they plan to make russia pay for ukraine's reconstruction. how

yes, that's right, and that's been a refrain that the european union and other countries have used that russia should pay for what it's done in ukraine. now they're coming up with tangible proposals on how to get some of that money. the, the e u says so far it's got almost 20000000000 euros in seized assets from oligarchs, that it has designated under its legal mechanisms for doing so. and there's some 300000000000 in bank reserves that it would also like to use. now this isn't as easy as it sounds. it can't just take the money out and hand it over to ukraine to start rebuilding the country. there are a lot of legal hoops to jump through, but the european union says that that's one of the things that it's going to be discussing here has been discussing it among member states, back in brussels as well. and they're definitely trying to move forward as fast as possible to take some of that money from moscow and handed over to keith. and is the meeting all about the war in your credit, or are there other things on the or sees agenda? there are some other things on the agenda, but many of them have to do with russia as well. for example,

because this country operates by consensus. russia has been able to block some really important things, like the next budget, like the next day, the chairmanship for 2024 would have been estonia, may still be estonia, but russia disagrees. so a lot of things have been held up because russia's acquiescence is needed. so at the same time, the organization is, is being forced to discuss how valuable it really is. how powerful can it be if russia or any other country in the future is, is able to basically block many of the actions. so, countries are talking about how important the field is. organization is, after all, it does in principle, bring russia and bella roofs and, and $57.00 countries in total to the table. and they find that that's important. germany, germany's on lisa barbara has just told us that for example, a bareback sorry has just told us that germany plans to give extra donations to the o. s. c e to manage while the budget is blocked. so countries certainly here trying to make, trying to make certain that the o s. c, e survives and talking about how important it is that there is still

a table that big for all of these members to sit around and the best of times. anyway, thanks for that territory show to the r c meeting in poland. that is world aids day, but with global efforts to battle, the corona virus pandemic, that's been much less of a focus on h. i. v aids in the last few years. now the u. n. estimates the last year around $38.00 and a half 1000000 people around the world. we're living with an h i v aids. and although the virus is climbing far fewer lives than it is peak in 2004, 650000 people around the world, died of h i v related to courses just last year. there is still no vaccine which makes avoiding infection even more important. the african region has the highest number of people living with the virus. and adrian crease reports now from cape town in south africa, where trials of new preventative methods are giving hope that numbers can be driven there. once a month,

since their medical penguin comes to this health center to get a package of prep, a daily pill of the pre exposure prophylaxis, protects people from getting h i. v. when having sex or my family to listen to generation, it's, they do have the age of a positive. so i came here to take breath because i wanna, i don't want to be that puddle fudge action. that is, he driving plaza to the health center of the desmond to to health foundation doubles up as a research site for many years. residence in the massive familiarly township have been participating in clinical trials 18 year old mother been. glenna is also considering taking part in a clinical trial for prevention auctions and injection. instead of a daily pill. recently we had the breakthrough of their day per injectable, that only had to be given every 2 months. that cavity, grover, long acting injectable. and at the moment in this very vicinity, we are tasting a 6 monthly prophylactic injectable, known as lemma kappa via. so if we can get to

a point where young people round the world, only have to take him injection every 6 months, twice a year. that would be an extraordinary breakthrough. linda. gail becker is a leading infectious disease specialist overseeing protocols for several prep and h i v vaccine trials. she praises the achievements in the past. in the ninety's, hundreds of thousands died of aids. now, anti retroviral drugs allow patients to live a normal life with the normal lifespan, but the crisis is not solved, particularly in the global north. there has been a, you know, turning away from a chevy. i think many people think the pandemic is over far from it. we had 4000 young woman, became infected with h. i v in the last week alone. and we still have a $150000.00 children newly and did with chevy every year. and there is

still a pandemic raging in many parts of the world. it's almost like we've written half the book and you know, we walking away before the rest of the book is finished and, and that to my mind is it, you know, is, is, is a catastrophe because of all the investment we've had in the last 2 years. could be lost if we don't actually finish the story. then came up with penguin. i wants to play her pass in finishing the story back at home. the 18 year old is busy, convincing friends to take prep. they don't want to go because they say they don't want you to, to repeal. because then i think it's to get people more and key to the about it. and i've been going assess, her generation is the 1st one to openly talk about h, i v, an important step to end the pandemic, or professor kogan, i do is head of

h. i v treatment research at the center for the age program of research in south africa. welcome to the w professor this. let's start with these these preventative medications that we heard about in, in the report. how much of a difference that i'm making. thank you very much for having me on your show. now these preventative measures have a huge hope prevention of ha, gave me on that. i give you the entirety and that's part of income guidelines in any part of the world. but now we have the that are becoming a year either clinical trial or it sounds like they're already available for years based on a clinical trial data that has already much of these drugs available to everyone who needs them. so i don't know from an accident you could the level

on demand and the injectable formulations, i'm not available in most of the world are the products that are still undergoing clinical trial. and he will be several hours before they become available to products that can be shown efficacy, but not yet on the shelf for, for on demand. ok. so it's one thing having the drugs on demand that's another i suppose getting people to actually demand them to actually take them. and so once they are available, are people taking them up i don't expect to be people being in a book a few years ago and the amount of people that accessing the jobs, nobody short of the total expect an expected number. do we

expect at least about 5, many individuals to be taking pre exposure prophylaxis by 2020 and the number is 5 short of that. and so if you look at the, you need to report across the globe. the number of people coming to mind is fine. and then what you actually expect, i do know why people are coming forward for these drugs. it's a variety of reasons why people don't want to be at all with the burden of taking cabinets every day in order to protect them again against h i v. so initially this high high demand, but as time goes on, the way people do cycle back,

but it's not consistent. high demand over long periods of time. that's the 1st is that the t people are settled with. and so they decide not to come forward to take also they may have tried taking him, but in the cycle off the side effects due to stuck out, the polls are not there when they go to demand it. and then the need to get these and privately, and not everybody has the ability to do so. those are some of the reasons for people that will really be introduced and they're not continuing to take to take it . i think the biggest problem with the mind is a perception of individuals oh, well are in relationships that do not perceive that they may in fact be addressed for the acquisition. and so not to be mind products that we

understood. that's very clear professor. thank you. so much for joining us, professor coach and i do from the center for the aides, from program of research and south africa. thank so much. thank you. ah, for will, will, cup and guitar it was group sees turn to play and pray with every team hoping to advance to the knockout stages. i despite little messy, missing a penalty. it was argentine at getting a crucial went over poland. first school was a bit clumsy. alexis mcallister's shot went off his foot onto his shin. i forget the post and into the gold. in 67 minutes julia now barrison made it to know that was how the game ended. tina won the group for the bipolar has found some place a few minutes after the game that they 2 at about the world cups also is seeing high numbers of female fans inside stadiums than ever

before. and arab women from catan, saudi arabia, morocco, and today i've attended in larger numbers than expected a tom, an image as casals woodcock. women from all over the out afford celebrating 15 and attending gains in big numbers. what is the bottom and then the lady women are going to games. now i've lived in cut off her 28 years and i've always gone to watch football. i support the local club around kathy and my culture is moroccan. we're supporting the national team as a national duty. we all should be in the stadium to cheer for our team because that gives the motivation as well as the fears. and once i had my nightmare, we come from a conservative country. some families don't accept women going to stadiums while other families don't have a problem with it. today i came with my colleagues and it's totally fine to say are the any, many out of women likely of what is going to say didn't supposed feed off sexual harassment. however,

at this was going to increase security diversity. i'm with family woman nowadays, there are no restrictions on women attending football matches in the out of wood. but there are cultural differences. moroccan woman have long attended matches, while saudi arabia only lifted their ban on fema supporters. 4 years ago, miranda women now have the same rights as men, stadiums, and cinnamon avenue. our stadiums are open for everyone. football has been in saudi arabia for many years, but this world cup made all of us super excited that are a lot of new things at the 1000 woke up and out a woman embracing the experience as his d. w. light from berlin. his reminder of our top story, our best, our time is top krona virus response official, has indicated that to abrasions hard line approach,

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